Hohenzollern Mexico

oberdada

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That one is easy. It will of course lead to a German-American War, beeing called Prusso-American War in US history books, a short-term communistic government in Washington D.C. followed by Wilhelm I. beeing proclaimed Kaiser in the White House. ;-)
 
Can't happen.

France is the most interested in installing an emperor in Mexico. No way they go for a Prussian emperor.

And it can't be Prussia doing the installing instead of France, because Prussia has other clear goals to meet at this time, and Bismarck IOTL considered that the French adventure in Mexico was the most foolish thing he had witnessed in his life (paraphrasing).
 
Also, Prussia did not have commercial interests in Mexico that would lead to being part of the OTL intervention, and the Prussian fleet consists of two rubber duckies and a life preserver. How do they do this?
 
Napoleon was actually more favourably inclined to the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringens than to those sitting in Berlin, due to the fact that Leopold of Sigmaringen (as well as those Hohenzollerns sitting in Romania) were part-Beauharnais and part-Murat. while Leopold's children and Ferdinand I of Romania were part Coburg as well. It was simply the idea of having a Hohenzollern encirclement that put him off. The Valois had done a similar thing against the Hapsburgs and it resulted in a rivalry for 250 years between the Valois/Bourbons and the Hapsburgs.
 
I think you'd need a considerably earlier POD for this to be even remotely plausible.

Maybe some chatolic Hohenzollern prince goes to Mexico directly after the nation´s birth and became emperor instead of Augustin de Iturbide. Not sure if thats more plausible.
 
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Maybe some chatolic Hohenzollern prince goes to Mexico directly after the nation´s birth and became emperor instead of Augustin de Iturbide. Not sure if thats more plausible.

Nope - not even close. For one thing, the Hohenzollerns were not interested at all in México. Second off, Spain would not allow it. Third off, even the Mexicans themselves would not want it - particularly the criollos, who were looking more at the American model. Fourth off, as much as Iturbide was a dick, even he would be smart enough to realize that that would not be a good idea. So nope - not going to work.
 
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